(Topic ID: 299918)

Most useless one-way gate in pinball?

By wisefwumyogwave

2 years ago



Topic Stats

You

Linked Games

Topic Gallery

View topic image gallery

1DAED235-B4B8-439C-B908-BE3267469313 (resized).png
IMG_20210906_154748900 (resized).jpg
#1 2 years ago

Just picked up a wwf to shop. It has this one-way gate here and is completely useless besides maybe providing a slight different bounce? what other gates should just not be there?

IMG_20210906_154748900 (resized).jpgIMG_20210906_154748900 (resized).jpg
#2 2 years ago

Good thing the gate is there to prevent the ball from hitting the star post rings. Are you sure that’s the original design?

Actually, just looked at the manual, and that is the original setup - weird.

1DAED235-B4B8-439C-B908-BE3267469313 (resized).png1DAED235-B4B8-439C-B908-BE3267469313 (resized).png

I guess the posts are there just in case the gate fails, and the gate is there just in case the posts fail.

#3 2 years ago
Quoted from Mr_Tantrum:

Good thing the gate is there to prevent the ball from hitting the star post rings. Are you sure that’s the original design?
Actually, just looked at the manual, and that is the original setup - weird.
[quoted image]
I guess the posts are there just in case the gate fails, and the gate is there just in case the posts fail.

Two fails = correct!

#4 2 years ago

That’s a really odd use for a gate. Does it deaden the ball’s rebound so it falls the rollover lanes?

#5 2 years ago

They also put a ball gate in a similar spot on Hollywood Heat. Totally bizarre

#6 2 years ago

I would assume it was designed it have a hole behind it at some stage of design.

#7 2 years ago
Quoted from Isochronic_Frost:

They also put a ball gate in a similar spot on Hollywood Heat. Totally bizarre

You beat me to it. HH is more of the bouncy spring steel (like you see on most EMs) rather than the one seen above.

#8 2 years ago

Data East Simpsons has the same exact setup. When I first got it I thought something must be wrong, but sure enough the manual shows those parts there. No idea why the redundancy.

Promoted items from Pinside Marketplace and Pinside Shops!
$ 20.00
Cabinet - Other
Filament Printing
 
From: $ 50.00
Cabinet - Armor And Blades
arcade-cabinets.com
 
$ 18.95
$ 35.00
Hardware
Filament Printing
 
$ 5.00
Playfield - Protection
UpKick Pinball
 
From: $ 40.00
Lighting - Interactive
Professor Pinball
 
From: $ 209.00
$ 99.00
Cabinet - Toppers
Slipstream Mod Shop
 
$ 32.00
Electronics
Yorktown Arcade Supply
 
$ 65.00
Boards
Pinball Haus
 
$ 28.00
Electronics
Yorktown Arcade Supply
 
$ 18.95
Eproms
Pinballrom
 
$ 18.95
Eproms
Pinballrom
 
$ 16.00
Boards
Lermods
 
From: $ 9.99
$ 36.95
Eproms
Pinballrom
 
4,750
Machine - For Sale
Ogden, UT

Reply

Wanna join the discussion? Please sign in to reply to this topic.

Hey there! Welcome to Pinside!

Donate to Pinside

Great to see you're enjoying Pinside! Did you know Pinside is able to run without any 3rd-party banners or ads, thanks to the support from our visitors? Please consider a donation to Pinside and get anext to your username to show for it! Or better yet, subscribe to Pinside+!


This page was printed from https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/most-useless-one-way-gate-in-pinball and we tried optimising it for printing. Some page elements may have been deliberately hidden.

Scan the QR code on the left to jump to the URL this document was printed from.